How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

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Good day everyone,

Need your advice on how to automate the moving or deploying managed solution to other environment ? I only know by manual export and then manual import through Power App top bar ->

Is there other way ? or lets say I have a managed solution which has a frequent changes. I want to import this into one of my environment first... then I would like to automate it to deploy to my other environment which can be more than 1.

Thanks.

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Voltes 265 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

Hi,

Anyone can help me how to put a zip file into DevOps Repos and then later use it in Release pipeline ?
I'm really new to DevOps so no idea which or how to use.

Thanks in advance.
Voltes 265 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

I'm sorry, but may I know how to achieve that ? is there any blog discussing about this ? or at which task in DevOps I should use ?

Thanks in advance.
cchannon 4,702 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

Yes, that is the correct approach, you store the zip (or unpacked version of the zip) in a static devops repo, then just keep re-deploying from there.
Voltes 265 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

Hi @cchannon

Yes, noted that now. Any chances my "idea" works ? Because I have the zip file already, can I put into my DevOps, so when Azure pipeline run to move my customization, before it is deploying to the new environment, first the Release pipeline will get this zip file (somewhere in DevOps) and import it first.

Why I want to do that is because my customization / solution having dependency with another solution which is a managed solution. This is the one I hope can be automated and import first using Azure pipeline (if possible)

Thanks
cchannon 4,702 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

Once a Managed solution has been installed in an environment, it cannot be exported from that environment. If you want to move a managed solution between environments, you must go back to the original source environment and export it from there.
Voltes 265 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

Hi, but shouldn't it has to be 'unmanaged solution' in order for DevOps export the solution from our environment so that DevOps can deploy it to another environment ?

I'm sorry, this is only based on my understanding about Managed / Unmanaged solution, and I hit error every time I'm using Azure Pipeline for export solution (which is on managed state). Probably there is a workaround for this ?
Something like we do not need to export the managed solution after all, as I already have the package in zip so maybe we just need to put this zip file somewhere in DevOps so it can brought and deploy together with my customization (the un-managed) which depend on that managed solution. I'm just "thinking out loud".

I am open to any guidance.

Thanks.
Kristoffer88 87 on at

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Re: How to automate to move managed solution to other environment

Hi.

You can do it with Azure Pipelines.

You can take a look at the documentation here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/devops-build-tools